Not long ago the Syrian regime through Hezbollah operatives assassinated Rafiq Hariri, a Lebanese leader in the opposition to Syria’s occupation of Lebanon, in a bomb blast in front of a hotel that also slew more than 20 other people.
A few years ago a guy named Imad Mugniyeh was killed - in Syria. After he had just met with Syrian officials.
He was the top dog of Hezbollah and the guy responsible for blowing up a bunch of US Marines...
Note that he was a very well known wanted terrorist ***meeting with Syrian officials.***
(Oh, you can bet Bannon, an old Navy intel guy, is very well aware of that fact.)
Another bit of trivia for you...
Escaped Austrian NAZI war criminal Alois Brunner was Adolf Eichmann’s assistant. Eichmann referred to Brunner as his “best man.” Brunner is held responsible for sending over 100,000 Jews to there deaths and was commander of the Drancey Internment Camp in France from which 24,000 people were deported.
Brunner fled West Germany in 1954, first for Egypt, then Syria, where he remained. He was harbored, paid and protected by successive regimes even though he was the object of many manhunts by Nazi hunters and had been condemned to death in absentia by France.
During his long residence in Syria, Brunner was reportedly given asylum and lived under the assumed name Dr Georg Fischer. He was given a generous salary and protection by the ruling Baath Party in exchange for advising and training the intel services of Assad’s father on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II and was last seen in 2003, though he apparently died in Syria in 2010 after outliving his usefulness to the ever more nervous government of Syria. He is buried somewhere in Damascus.
So, what is the point of all the intrigue you posted? That we should shell/bomb Syria when we feel like it? Maybe just colonize Syria like Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Quatar, etc? Or is you point more like reasonisfaith’s point which is it’s just a large cruise missile strike against a supposedly guilty Assad. And if he’s not guilty, meh, no one likes Assad anyway so no biggie.